Rail tie



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RAIL TIE Filed Feb. 21, 1928 WITNESS: ATTORNEY Patented May 27, 1930 UNITED STATES JAMES E. BLISS, F FAUST, NEW YORK I RAIL TIE Application filed February 21, 1928. Serial No. 256,023.

rails on the tie.

The primary object of the invention is the provision of a railway tie that may be wholly or partly constructed of metal and which has its upper face depressed to provide rail seats, the end of one or both of the seats being undercut to form the same with lips that receive therebeneath the base flange and contact with the web of a rail, while suitable wedge or like plates are received in and secured to the seats for engaging with the opposite sides of the rail, and whereby the rails are easily positioned upon the tie and firmly secured thereto. 7

To the attainment of the foregoing and other objects which will present themselves, the invention also consists in the details of construction, combination and operative association of parts, satisfactory embodiments of which are disclosed by the accompanying drawings.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a top plan view of one form of the improvement.

Figure 2 is a side elevation thereof.

In the drawings the tie 1 is constructed of metal and is in the nature of an I beam. The top of the tie is indicated for distinction by the numeral 2, the central web by the numeral 8 and the base flange by the numeral 4. The flange 4 has integrally formed thereon transversely arranged depending ribs 5. If desired, the web and base 4. may be dispensed with and the top plate 2 may rest directly upon a wooden tie and may be spiked or otherwise secured thereto.

The top plate 2 is formed, at points adjacent to the ends of the tie, with depressed portions that form rail seats 6 and 7 respec tively. The rail seat 6, upon its outer end, is undercut to form the same with a projecting lip 8 whose under face is arranged at an inclination to correspond with the inclined upper face of the upper portion of the base flange 9 of a rail 10. By reference especially to Figure 2 of the drawings, it will be seen that the lip 8 not only overlies the base flange 9 of the rail but the end thereof contacts with the web of the said rail, and likewise the wall provided between the seat 6 and the lip 8 is contacted by the outer edge of the base flange 9 of the rail 10. Except when joints of rails rest on the tie, the outer edges of both the pockets 6 and 7 are formed with the lips 8.

The pockets 6 and 7 provide therebetween an upstanding portion or rib 11 whose end walls are undercut to provide the same with lips 12 and 13, respectively. The walls provided by the lip 13 are cut at an angle with respect to the longitudinal plane of the tie and are designed to coengage with the angle lips or ribs 14: upon the inner edges of wedge blocks 15. The wedge blocks have their inner edges undercut to provide lips 16, substantially similar to the lips 8 on the tie proper, which lips overlie the inner base flange of the rail, contact with the outer edge of such flange and with the inner face of the web of the said rail. A wedge key 17 passes through a wedge opening in the wedge plate 16, contacts with one of the sides of the tie 1, and is engaged by a cotter pin or like device for locking the wedge plate on the tie and the rail secured on said tie.

The outer wall provided by the seat 7 is straight and is indicated for distinction by the numeral 18. The ends of rails 19 are designed to occupy the seat 7. Both of these rails are engaged by fish plates 20 and 21 formed on the confronting ends of blocks or plates 22 and 23, respectively. The inner plate 24 has a rib or tongue 24 to be received under the lip 18, but the outer end of the plate 23 is straight and contacts with the wall or shoulder 18. Both of these plates 22 and 23 are secured on the tie by bolts 25 that are engaged by suitable nuts.

Having described the invention, I claim:

A rail tie comprising a member having its upper face, from points adjacent to its ends depressed to provide rail seats, one of said seats having its end wall grooved for the reception of the base flange of the rail and the second and inner end wall arranged at an angle and also grooved, a rail engaging plate having its outer edge arranged at an angle and said angle edge formed with a tongue to be received in the last mentioned groove, a wedge element passingthrough the Wedge plate, and frictionally contacting With one of the sides of the tie, the second rail seat having its inner end Wall grooved transversely and its outer end Wall straight, plates to be received in the rail seat to engage With the rail on said seat, the inner plate having a tongue to be received in the inner groove, the second plate having its end straight to contact with the straight outer Wall of the rail seat, both of said plates having rail engaging elements on the confronting ends thereof, together with means for fastening said plates to the tie.

In testimony whereof I aifix my signature.

JAMES E. BLISS. 

